The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-10-29
GENER Al NEWS.

filings arc row made for teeth.
The only part Of Illinois that the
President saw by daylight was Chi
cago.
Philadelphia colored Knights Tenn
plar had warm reception IN Balti-
more.
They are talking of establishing a
theater in Chicago exclusively for col
ored people.
1t is a mighty poor community this
year that can't get some kind of an
exposition.
Ola maids should go to Akron, o.
at once. 1t is said that 60.000,0O0
matches are made in that town every
day.
1t is estimated that the value of the
furs secured in Alaska for 1887 vii.
amount to $2,500,000.
There are over 100 asylums and
homes for lunatics, iriendess men,
women and incurables in New York.
Destructive forest fires continue TO
be reported throughout Canada.
Many farmers homes and crops have
been destroyed.
Most of the buildings burned in the
recent fire at Sanford, Fla, were of
"fat' pine, which blazes like cotton
when ignlted.
The present report indicates that
the California rasin crop will amount
TO 100000 boxes, II large increase
over any former crcp produced IN the
Golden State.
A man shoveling dirt with n shovel
one pound heavier than it need be will
lift 5000 pounds more in day OF ten
hours than he would with shovel one
pound lighter.
Bible readings in parlors will be Il
feature in Boston society this Winter.
and Will take the place among some
of the intellectual that Browning re
citals occupied last year.
A New York elevator firm is max :
ing two hydraulic elevators for the
great Paris tower. There will be six
in all, four running 500 feet up, and
two going The other 500 feet.
The former residence of. the late
"Uncle Daniel Drew, in Putnam
county, N. Y was sold a: auction on
Monday week for $4,000. IL COM
priscd house and twenty acres OF
land.
The women of New York have been
granted more patents thun their sisters
in any other State. The wnmen of
Massachusetts. Ohio, Indiana and
Wisconsin rank next in order.
Some one comes forward with the
theory that cigarette smoking tends In
soflcning Of the brain. This is not
exactly right, but softening of the
brain tends to cigarette smoking
Boston Journal nf Health
Chicago capitalists are seriously con
sidering the project of Duildin. a large
factory in Los Angeles Ia manufacture
all kinds Of time pieces, from the
smallest watch to the largest church
tower clock. 1t is proposed tn he
built on scale requiring about one
thousand men, mostly skilled work.
men.
An old gentleman recently died in
st. Louis who suffered loss Of SIS,
600, 000--that is. by II modern method
of computing speculative losses and
gains. Years ago he refused the eff r
ut $40 Of a scope Of lana now worth
$25,OOO,0O0.
Among the requests of the late Mrs.
Carrie Welton. OF Waterbury, Conn J.,
was one of $1,000 for public drink
ing fountain. The fountain must be
in the shape of u life-sized horse, and
is to he devoted to shaking the thilst
of horses, dogs and men.
A fearful epidemic of typhoid fever
is raging at iran Mountain. Michigan.
Over 100 people are down with the
disease, and from one To seven funtr-
ais occur daily. The local physiC ians
are i'll and exhausted, and medical aid
has been summoned from Chicago.
The forest area of the United States
is less than 100000, 900, 900 acres, OF
728.000 square miles, or about one
fifth the areasc of the whole country
For railroad ties alone the wood or
500.010 acres. 800 square miles. is 10
quired annually. Same idea of thu
rapid reduction OF our forest may ht